Routledge Handbook of Water and Development: (Routledge International Handbooks)

Water is essential for human life and at the centre of political, economic, and socio-cultural development. This Routledge Handbook of Water and Development offers a systematic, wide-ranging, and state-of-the-art guide to the diverse links between water and development across the globe. It is organized into four parts:

• Part I explores the most significant theories and approaches to the relationship between water and development
• Part II consists of carefully selected in-depth case studies, revealing how water utilization and management are deeply intertwined with historical development paths and economic and socio-cultural structures
• Part III analyses the role of governance in the management of water and development
• Part IV covers the most urgent themes and issues pertaining to water and development in the contemporary world, ranging from climate change and water stress to agriculture and migration

The 32 chapters by leading experts are meant to stimulate researchers and students in a wide range of disciplines in the social and natural sciences, including Geography, Environmental Studies, Development Studies, and Political Science. The Handbook will also be of great value to policymakers and practitioners.

1. Introduction: The Water-Development Nexus

2. Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain and Joakim Öjendal

   PART I: THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

3. Water as a Tool for Modernity

4. Joakim Öjendal & Sofie Hellberg

5. Institutional Approaches to Water for Development

6. Larry Swatuk

7. Water and Human Development: Unpacking Scarcity and ‘water crises’

8. Lyla Mehta

9. Critical and Post-structural Approaches to Water and Development

10. Sofie Hellberg

11. Feminist Contributions to Water and Development Scholarship

12. Margreet Zwarteveen

13. Indigenous Peoples, Sustainable Development, and Ontologies of Water

14. Deborah McGregor, Mahisha Sritharan and Steve Whitaker

    PART II: CASE STUDIES ON WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

15. Cambodia

16. Joakim Öjendal

17. South Africa

18. Richard Meissner, Nikki Funke, Stephen Rule. Karen Nortje and Inga Jacobs-Mata

19. Peru

20. Patricia Urteaga Crovetto

21. Jordan

22. Neda Zawahri

23. The Netherlands

24. Erik Mostert

    PART III: GOVERNING WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

25. Governing Water Services

26. Klaas Schwarz and Mireia Tutusaus

27. Water, Neoliberalism and Commodification

28. Jessica Budds and Alex Loftus

29. The Human Right to Water

30. Peter H. Gleick

31. Water Resources Management – The Missing Political Link

32. Kurt Mörck Jensen and Jens Christian Refsgaard

33. Water, Participation and Development

34. Jeroen Warner and Richard Meissner

35. Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters

36. Jeroen Warner

37. Strategies towards SDG 6 Implementation

38. Anik Bhaduri, Alexandre Teixeira and Aditya Kaushik

    PART IV: THEMES AND ISSUES

39. Water, Food and Irrigation

40. Jaime Hoogesteger, Diana Suhardiman, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas and Rutgerd Boelens

41. Groundwater

42. Susann Baez Ullberg and Henrik Josefsson

43. Water Stress and Scarcity

44. Zafar Adeel

45. Water, Migration and Development

46. Anders Jägerskog and Ashok Swain

47. Water and Climate Change

48. Deliang Chen and Hui-Wen Lai

49. Drought

50. Elisa Savelli

51. Water-Energy Nexus

52. Aiko Endo

53. Water Inequalities

54. Maria Rusca

55. Gendered Intersections in Water and Development

56. Gaylean Davies, Evelyn Arriagada and Leila M. Harris

57. Urban Water

58. Susan van de Meene

59. Water and Health

60. Jo Geere, Paul R Hunter and Bruce Lankford

61. Sanitation

62. Nelson Ekane

63. Digital Water

Karen Bakker, Rosemary Knight, Raymond T Ng, Alan K Mackworth and Max Ritts

Sofie Hellberg is associate professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She studies, and teaches on, water politics, environmental, climate governance and theories of power and agency. Hellberg has published in leading journals and with international publishers on topics ranging from Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to research methodology. Her previous work on water appears in international journals including Geoforum, Water Alternatives, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space and Local Environment as well as in a monograph on The Biopolitics of Water (Routledge, 2018).

Fredrik Söderbaum is a professor of peace and development research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium. Söderbaum has published extensively in leading journals on comparative regionalism, global and regional governance, development research, security studies, and African politics. His most recent books include Contestations of the Liberal International Order: A Populist Script of Regional Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rethinking Regionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Intersecting Interregionalism: Regions, Global Governance and the EU (Springer, 2014).

Ashok Swain is Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation and Director of the Research School of International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environment and Security, published by SAGE and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. He has written extensively on new security challenges, water-sharing issues, environment, conflict and peace, and democratic development issues. His most recent publications includes, Handbook of Security and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2021) coedited with Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog.

Joakim Öjendal is professor in Peace and Development Research since 2006 at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has worked on resource politics, peacebuilding, and post-war democratisation for three decades in research, policy and education. He has published widely in leading journals and with international publishers, for instance being the co-editor of Water Security, a Four Volume Set of SAGE Major Works, as well as Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate, published with Earthscan, both in 2014. His most recent publications includes Handbook of Security and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2021) coedited with Ashok Swain and Anders Jägerskog.